A project in my third year of doing a Bachelors Study in Musicology at the University of Amsterdam with a specialization into Music Cognition. Project for analysing and comparing music playlists on Spotify, specifically searching for difference in ‘calming/relaxing music’ for humans and for dogs
Which exact music elements are relevant for calming dogs may have been been applied.
The corpus has been made from songs on many playlists that exist for those groups. It is my working hypothesis that the first two groups are hardly different and that a high level of antropomorphism is applicable => what humans define and perceive as relaxing will be true for dogs also. Group 3 eand 4 require further analysis
Potentially a third group, well defined on scientific research, may show significant differences on a variety of elements. It might also be that ‘true’ calming music for dogs is based on elements that disqualify for humans as true music (i.e. pitches in sounds at frequency levels unhearable for humans but hearable for dogs.
Re. the 3 group: see https://icalmpet.com/wp-content/uploads/BioAcoustic-Research-and-Development-Executive-Summary.pdf
I based my third group , called “Through a Dogs Ear, science-based supposedly. upon this paper and the available public playlists in Spotify labeled”Through a Dogs Ear” (published by authors of this research).
** Research has been done into calming/relaxing effects of music, both for humans as for dogs. For the first group, humans, we know much more given a higher quality level of feedback. For dogs, research shows that similar aspects apply as for humans (tempo, loudness, pitch, instruments) but also differences (variety, genre, ’nature’sounds). At this stage I haven’t identified nor selected specific tracks for each of these 2 or 3 groups. I need to do more analysis of previous research into calming music for dogs to identify the musical elements that appear to be relevant.
test ### A global analysis of 4 relaxation playlists: humans, dogs, ‘sciencehumans’ and sciencedogs’ #### bla bla bla
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/48fYbZUMrk5mJwhfj3xAi4?si=e4adb9f034634348
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** Research has been done into calming/relaxing effects of music, both for humans as for dogs. For the first group, humans, we know much more given a higher quality level of feedback. For dogs, research shows that similar aspects apply as for humans (tempo, loudness, pitch, instruments) but also differences (variety, genre, ’nature’sounds). At this stage I haven’t identified nor selected specific tracks for each of these 2 or 3 groups. I need to do more analysis of previous research into calming music for dogs to identify the musical elements that appear to be relevant.